Pere Marquette charter township, Mason County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (78% naturalized citizens)
| Pere Marquette charter township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Pere Marquette charter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1713
- Northeast: 42
- Midwest: 253
- South: 93
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,154
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 7
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 13
- Mobile homes: 169
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,100
Housing units in Pere Marquette charter township with a mortgage: 341 (16 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 236
- Construction (9%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pere Marquette charter township:
- German (24.2%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- Polish (9.6%)
- Dutch (5.5%)
- Danish (4.9%)
- Swedish (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Syria (35%)
- Mexico (22%)
- Canada (18%)
- Ireland (8%)
- Other Northern Europe (8%)
- Korea (5%)
- Germany (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 851 (88%)
- Carpooled: 64 (7%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 47 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Wood (1%)
96.4% of residents of Pere Marquette charter township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 47% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,197- In family households: 1,955 (583 male householders, 84 female householders)
574 spouses, 643 children (595 natural, 24 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 1 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 242 (105 male householders (100 living alone)), 116 female householders (97 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 344 2-persons, 134 3-persons, 109 4-persons, 63 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 197 1-person, 24 2-persons,
448 married couples with children.
92 single-parent households (29 men, 63 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 71
| Here: | 23.0% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.3% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |